Comment: In a shambolic episode in democracy, Sanders emerges as the only hope to beat Trump
Having lived in the United States permanently for the past seven years, there are many aspects of the country’s democratic experiment that, for me, remain quixotic and even idiotic, including the Iowa caucuses, the state where voters get their first opportunity to voice their choice for president, as they did on Monday with the general election fewer than ten months away.
You get the drift. To an unfamiliar observer, the caucuses resemble more a cattle auction than a critical component of the world’s most powerful democracy. After preparing for this exact moment for the full three years of the Trump presidency, the Democratic Party had just one job: tally the votes and assign a delegate count to each of the field’s near-dozen candidates.
The Iowa Democratic Party released its “partial result” on Wednesday, after 62 per cent of precincts counted, showing Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg splitting the lead – Sanders with the a popular vote and Buttigieg with the delegates'. Should the place order remain this way after all precincts are counted, then it can only be interpreted as good news for the Sanders campaign, given Biden is widely considered his biggest threat. Should the former VP and presumed frontrunner walk away from Iowa with a worse than third position, it’s hard to imagine him faring much better in New Hampshire and Nevada, an outcome that would see his donations all but vanish.
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